Avoid. - Anonymous employee Carne Group Employee Review

- Below market standard pay, bonus and pension. No benefits such as health insurance. - Part of bonus granted in 'IOU's' for shares in a hitherto theoretical IPO with no guarantee of value or date, and which cannot be fully redeemed for 3+ years after the possible-maybe-one-day-public listing. No option to opt out of this. - 10% of bonus also auto-allocated to CEO's chosen charity under the company's name, and you are made to understand it is "frowned upon" for you to opt out and use that money to donate to a charity of your own choice instead. - CEO thinks paying for a misogynistic rugby player to fly to London and lecture staff with such wisdom as: "You shouldn't put out your hand to ask for more money, instead put up your hand to ask for more work" and "If your wife doesn't support you working late for the benefit of the company you should find someone who will" is a good use of company funds and employee time. - No clear company strategy or direction beyond "we want to make money". Since they're unsuccessful in that area of late, their only solution is mass layoffs. - Interns made to work weekends manually compiling thousands of lines of data so Carne can avoid paying their data provider fees for downloading it. They then wonder why no interns return and apply to Carne as grads. - Head of HR is also lead on sustainability but was surprised to learn (in 2023) that just planting more trees is not enough to solve the climate crisis. Verbatim quote: "I thought planting trees was a good thing?" - Company has data on gender pay gap at all levels of business and should be required to report it under EU regulations, however has taken steps to purposely dodge their responsibility and avoid making the data public. Apparently they intend to report it in 2024 though so...well done them on doing less than the bare minimum. - Office manager sent around an email speaking about the benefits of biophilic design, company paid a firm to render office floor plans with improvements that incorporate nature. The result was 2 medium sized potted plants being placed at the end of a row of desks.